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...through a parked automobile. The occupants of neither house nor car were injured, but Major General Westover died with his crew chief. Technical Sergeant Samuel Hymes. Ordered to inquire into causes was Major Joseph L. Stromme, who guessed that Pilot Westover had flown too slowly, got caught in a downward thermal draft...
Official explanation of this downward tendency is not forthcoming from University Hall, but it is believed that President Conant's speeches last spring in favor of limiting college enrollments may have had some application at home. But because of the restriction of the Freshman Class to 1000 by Corporation rule, registration cannot vary more than slightly in any year...
...following: ". . . It seems . . . that the new Assistant Secretary of War . . . is going to be promoted to Secretary. . . . Another ex-Commander [of the Legion] Paul V. McNutt, will soon be ex-High Commissioner of the Philippines. . . . The other ex-Commander and present War Secretary, Harry Woodring, would not be stepping downward if he stepped into Mr. McNutt's Philippine boots, even if they're pinching the incumbent...
Last week figures from abroad indicated a slight leveling off in business, but London's famed financial sheet,The Economist, remarked: "We cannot conclude that the downward trend in British business has been reversed. . . . In France, where for some months rising wholesale prices have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial...
Michigan resembles a left hand turned palm downward, and its remotest part is The Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After...